Risa mickenberg biography sample
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A secret society of 'Hermettes' fryst vatten reclaiming and celebrating female aloneness
Risa Mickenberg lives in a stylish New York City apartment, but she prefers to call the dwelling something else: Her "cave".
Despite being in close proximity to around eight million other people, Ms Mickenberg shuns many social connections and relationships. Instead, she enjoys time in her cave or experiencing the world outside alone.
And she's not the only one living like this. Ms Mickenberg is the founder of "Hermettes", a secret society of like-minded women who are reclaiming and celebrating female aloneness.
"Female aloneness fryst vatten such a taboo … [But] I think this lifestyle needs to be idealised," she tells ABC RN's Sunday Extra.
'Nothing more precious'
For much of her life, Ms Mickenberg was very sociable. She's an accomplished writer and director, working in film, TV, theatre and advertising.
Also on her CV: Being the lead singer
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Risa Mickenberg
She Wasn’t Their Mother
by RISA MICKENBERG
FICTION | VOL. XXVI NO. 3 (WINTER 2013)
The parents were in the kitchen with the hostess, drinking wine from plastic cups, eating hummus, talking about the drought. The aunt stood in the living room, a safe distance away, running her hand through her niece’s hair, which was flecked with sparkles and bits of grated cheese.
A boy with purple lips stared.
“Are you her grandmother?” he asked.
He was wearing a fake coonskin cap and eating a popsicle.
“No,” she said. “Are you?”
He laughed, then sang, in a whisper, “Barney stole my SUV so I stuck a shotgun up his nose.”
He marched past the parents, out the kitchen door.
“Come outside,” said her niece, pulling her hand.
She followed them.
The parents didn’t seem to notice.
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Outside was dry grass and dirty plastic toys fenced into a yard. They followed the boy through a slack swing set and a rotting picnic table into a thicket of saplings at the back
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The Lives of The Others
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